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From: antlists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:32:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <04005ef6-698f-e1de-139a-a87c8d92b151@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200430170452.hsv6vcgzy43mluxq@solfire>

On 30/04/2020 18:04, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> I copied the first 230GB of that disk to an empty partition of my new
> system and run "testdisk" on it....after the analysis it came back
> with "this partition cannot be recovered" but did not sau. whether the
> reason is a partition table, which is broken beyond repair, or simply
> due to the incomplete image file...

Just come up with another idea that will hopefully give us some clues...

https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Asking_for_help#lsdrv

Ignore the fact that it's the raid wiki - this tool basically delves 
into the drive and tries to find mbr, gpt, superblock, lvm and raid 
signatures, everything ...

So run that and see what it tells us ...

Cheers,
Wol


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-30 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-30  9:32 [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks tuxic
2020-04-30  9:55 ` Wols Lists
2020-04-30 10:36   ` tuxic
2020-04-30 12:17     ` Wols Lists
2020-04-30 13:10       ` Wynn Wolf Arbor
2020-04-30 17:04         ` tuxic
2020-04-30 17:21           ` Wynn Wolf Arbor
2020-04-30 19:32           ` antlists [this message]
2020-05-01  1:59             ` tuxic
2020-05-01  8:03               ` tuxic
2020-05-01 20:27                 ` antlists
2020-05-02  1:42                   ` tuxic
2020-05-02 17:31                     ` Wols Lists
2020-05-02 17:49                       ` tuxic
2020-05-02 17:55                       ` tuxic
2020-04-30 13:44   ` Andrea Conti
2020-04-30 18:08     ` tuxic
2020-04-30 19:27       ` Wynn Wolf Arbor
2020-04-30 19:46         ` tuxic
2020-04-30 19:59           ` Wynn Wolf Arbor
2020-04-30 20:21         ` Andrea Conti
2020-04-30 20:47           ` Wynn Wolf Arbor
2020-05-01  5:07             ` tuxic
2020-05-01  6:52               ` Andrea Conti
2020-05-01  7:18                 ` tuxic
2020-05-01 10:27                   ` Wynn Wolf Arbor
2020-05-01 16:00                   ` Andrea Conti
2020-05-01 16:32                     ` Peter Humphrey
2020-05-02  2:03                       ` tuxic
2020-05-02  7:49                         ` Andrea Conti
2020-05-02  8:39                           ` tuxic
2020-05-02  9:23                             ` Michael

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